Anachronisms

Just a thought.. The next time Obama refers to BP (the oil company with a 40-40-20 split in UK-US-other shareholders) as “British Petroleum”, perhaps the UK press should return the compliment. Anyone care to hear a statement from the President with British East African (and Sandwich Islander) ancestry? Yeh, daft isn’t it?

Some facts.

Exams have just finished here in Auckland, and I’m waiting for the pre-dawn so I can nip out and get some lovely shots of sunrise over the skyline. In the meantime I recall some fun facts I rediscovered during my exam revision. As a geologist I naturally get involved in all manner of unfashionable things, like [...]

Oi! Barrack, leave our Tone alone!

Right, ok, suppose that I - as a geologist - should take some notice of this oil seep in the Gulf of Mexico. So it’s very big and not very friendly to sea life. Its also photogenic in a very “non-” kind of way. From a PR perspective its an environmentalists dream. Played the right way, its [...]

Rehash, repost, recycle. (oil)

Back in the twilight days of my 1st year of University, and in the long summer that followed, I had my first proper blog. In a way it was a prototype for this current one. Except for the fact that (a) it was anonymous, (b) it was less proper with my language, and (c) no [...]

Good Oil. Bad Oil – Thoughts on energy independence.

This post was originally written back around jan-feb, shortly after President Obama’s inauguration. Given this blog’s [buls.wordpress.com] regular bouts of Obama-phillia, I thought i’d give it a bash and try shoehorning in an Obama quote in support of a few points I’d like to make. I’ve attacked the Green lobby before, and (though entirely justified) [...]

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